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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@vibes.diy/api-svc/v/14.3.167"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@vibes.diy/api-svc/v/14.3.167.md"
package: "@vibes.diy/api-svc"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "14.3.167"
---

# @vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 14.3.167
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The scanner’s avatar-backfill finding is not supported by the inspected code: the tool is explicitly invoked and gates writes behind --apply. Selected registry dependencies remain unresolved, so the source review cannot establish a clean verdict or rule out risk in those dependencies.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-21T13:08:00.333Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-21T13:08:42.195Z
- **Download time:** 3585 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2291 ms
- **AI review time:** 35984 ms
- **Total time:** 41862 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No concrete attack surface was established in the inspected package source. Review remains unresolved because selected registry dependency source could not be verified.

- **Trigger:** No malicious trigger was confirmed; the avatar backfill runs as an explicitly invoked admin command.

- **Impact:** No malicious impact was confirmed from the inspected source; unreviewed dependency behavior remains unknown.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-21T13:08:42.195Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** The inspected backfill reads avatar records and writes transformed objects only with --apply; unresolved selected dependencies prevent a complete source assessment.

- **Rationale:** The scanner’s avatar-backfill finding is not supported by the inspected code: the tool is explicitly invoked and gates writes behind --apply. Selected registry dependencies remain unresolved, so the source review cannot establish a clean verdict or rule out risk in those dependencies.

- **Files touched:** package.json, usage-report/backfill-avatars.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** package.json declares no lifecycle hook in the inspected scripts and uses index.js as its main entrypoint., The avatar backfill selects a read or admin database credential based on an explicit --apply argument., The flagged backfill performs writes only when --apply is present; otherwise it reports a dry run., The package depends on registry packages whose selected source was unresolved, including @adviser/cement and @vibes.diy/pouf.

- **Evidence against:** The flagged avatar utility fetches assets from the configured base, defaulting to the package-aligned vibes.diy host, and its write pass requires --apply., The inspected excerpts do not establish credential theft or another concrete attack.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167.

- Review the evidence and your use of @vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 3. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 4. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** usage-report/backfill-avatars.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167/usage-report/backfill-avatars.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L2: import * as fs from "node:fs";
...
L24: NEON_DATABASE_ADMIN_URL   write connection (required for --apply)
L25: ASSET_FETCH_BASE          public host serving /assets/cid/ (default https://vibes.diy)
L26: --apply additionally shells out to \`wrangler r2 object put\` — wrangler must be
...
L37: throw new Error(`fetch ${row.getURL} returned ${res.status}`);
L38: const buf = Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer());
L39: if (buf.byteLength !== row.size) {
...
L92: return Result.Err(`wrangler r2 object get exited ${res.status}`);
L93: if (res.stdout.equals(work.newBytes) === false)
L94: return Result.Err("stored avatar differs from transformed bytes");
...
L140: const apply = args.includes("--apply");
```

### 6. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 7. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 8. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** usage-report/r2-affected-apps.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167/usage-report/r2-affected-apps.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = usage-report/r2-affected-apps.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2493
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 9. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 10. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** intern/design-repair.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167/intern/design-repair.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 5
```

### 11. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** intern/opens-check.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167/intern/opens-check.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.125
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpYmVzLmRpeS9hcGktc3Zj:14.3.125
similarity = 0.733
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibes.diy/api-svc@14.3.167/package.json>)

package.json declares no lifecycle hook in the inspected scripts and uses index.js as its main entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"type": "module",
  "main": "./index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "core-cli tsc",
    "db:inspect": "tsx ./usage-report/inspect-db.ts",
    "journey": "tsx ./usage-
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 36
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 36

### Published dependency entries
- @adviser/cement ~0.5.34 (Dependency)
- @adviser/scopey ~0.0.4 (Dependency)
- @cf-wasm/quickjs ~0.3.0 (Dependency)
- @cloudflare/workers-types ~5.20261011.1 (Dependency)
- @libsql/client ~0.18.0 (Dependency)
- @neondatabase/serverless ~1.2.0 (Dependency)
- @noble/hashes ~2.4.0 (Dependency)
- @shadcn/lint ~0.2.0 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/api-pkg 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/api-sql 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/api-types 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/call-ai-v2 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/identity 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/look 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/pouf 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/prompts 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/vibe-db-explorer 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/vibe-runtime 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- @vibes.diy/vibe-types 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- acorn ~8.17.0 (Dependency)
- acorn-jsx ~5.3.2 (Dependency)
- arktype ~2.2.6 (Dependency)
- call-ai 14.3.167 (Dependency)
- charwise ~3.0.1 (Dependency)
- cookie ~2.0.1 (Dependency)
- csv-parse ~7.0.3 (Dependency)
- drizzle-orm ~0.45.2 (Dependency)
- eslint ~9.39.5 (Dependency)
- jose ~6.2.12 (Dependency)
- mime ~4.1.0 (Dependency)
- multiformats ~14.0.5 (Dependency)
- parse5 ~8.0.1 (Dependency)
- random-words ~2.0.1 (Dependency)
- react ~19.2.8 (Dependency)
- react-dom ~19.2.8 (Dependency)
- sucrase ~3.35.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @vibes.diy/api-svc
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 14.3.167
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-21T13:05:07.428Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T06:23:45.274Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T04:55:45.787Z
- **Known versions:** 335
- **Latest version:** 14.3.275
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** WebSocket-based API for vibes.diy chat persistence and app deployment. Supports both HTTP POST and WebSocket connections using the same handler via the Evento event-driven framework.
- **Maintainers:** fastandfearless, jchris
- **Artifact files:** 1889
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 8,912,045 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@vibes.diy/api-svc/v/14.3.167>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/VibesDIY/vibes.diy>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/VibesDIY/vibes.diy#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/VibesDIY/vibes.diy/issues>)
